Due to lower-than-planned demand for aggregates, transport in this commodity group performed by the company was as much as 22.5 percent lower than in the same period last year, although it remained at the 2006 level. Consequently, this led to a 6.8 percent decrease in transport work, and with a significant increase in the unit cost of access to infrastructure by 8.1 percent, traction energy prices by 12 percent, diesel fuel by 20 percent, and other materials by about 20 percent, it had an adverse effect on the financial result obtained (-PLN 84.8 million, which constitutes 2.3 percent of the revenue achieved in the first half of this year).
At the same time, PKP CARGO is consistently implementing a strategy of rebuilding the company’s potential in terms of investments and repairs, especially the repair and modernization of rolling stock. The investment and repair plan implemented in the first half of this year amounted to PLN 460.6 million. Regarding tariff policy, despite the increase in costs independent of the company, it did not introduce another increase in transport service tariffs in the first half of this year, fulfilling the declaration made to its customers in January of this year. At the same time, as a result of active commercial activities aimed at customers, the company managed to secure 1.3 percent more hard coal for transport (despite a 9 percent drop in its extraction from January to May of this year), 3.6 percent more coke and lignite, and 5.8 percent more metals and metal products. A significant increase of about 30 percent, calculated in UTI units, was also recorded in intermodal transport.